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There has been a lot of talk about how much alike the GOP and Democrats are. Well, that's half true. They use many of the same tactics, but I assure you their ideology and results are very different indeed. Take a long, hard look at the financial news from the 1st quarter of 2009 when Obama took office, and now look at today's financial news, and ask yourself: Are they really identical?

After you've done this, you might also ask yourself...do you really want a repeat of 2001-2008???

Originally posted by bill718There has been a lot of talk about how much alike the GOP and Democrats are. Well, that's half true. They use many of the same tactics, but I assure you their ideology and results are very different indeed. Take a long, hard look at the financial news from the 1st quarter of 2009 when Obama took office, and now look at today's financial news, and ask yoursel ...[text shortened]... newyork2/index.htm

Originally posted by bill718There has been a lot of talk about how much alike the GOP and Democrats are. Well, that's half true. They use many of the same tactics, but I assure you their ideology and results are very different indeed. Take a long, hard look at the financial news from the 1st quarter of 2009 when Obama took office, and now look at today's financial news, and ask yoursel ...[text shortened]... newyork2/index.htm

In the old days, you has conservative Dems like Zell Miller and liberal Republicans like Linc Chafee. Now you get drummed out of the party if you disagree with your leadership too much (see Joe Lieberman and Eric Cantor).

But to your point, January of 2009 was in the midst of a nasty recession. The economy had almost nowhere to go but up. That's not really a valid basis for comparison. If you want to make a valid comparison, the better comparison would be the median Bush economy with the media Obama economy or at least comparing now to the media Bush economy.